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Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the Divinity School

History of contemporary European philosophy and literature; history of moral and political philosophy; history of the human sciences; history and philosophy of religion.

Golden Age Spanish literature; Renaissance studies; magic and the Hermetic tradition; ekphrasis; relations between Spanish Literature and Italian Art; and the interconnections between myth and empire during the rule of the Spanish Habsburgs

Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Department of Comparative Literature and the College

Tamil language and literature of all periods, in particular nineteenth-century literary culture, Tamil cinema, South Indian cultural history; literary theory, theory and practice of literary translation, the global history of the novel, less commonly read literatures in Europe (e.g. Catalan, Rumantsch, Czech).

Theory and history of drama and performance in Europe, Africa and the Americas; cultural theory mostly marxist and post colonial; (South) African literature and visual culture: GDR and contemporary Germany